People who come to Britain for the first time find
some of the customs new and interesting. The English do not shake hands each
time when they meet. When you go to a friend’s house for a meal, it is not the
custom to say "Thank you” at the end of the meal as in most European countries.
Here you wait until you are leaving to go home and then you thank your friends
for their invitation.

Very few people, even people with quite a lot
of money, have servants in their homes. It’s very difficult to find a servant
and to find a good servant in even more difficult. They also want too much
money for their job. So families do most of the housework themselves, and
husbands usually work as much as wives. Most of the housework is done on
Saturday mornings or afternoons when nobody works. Заказать выполнение данной контрольной работы.

1.What
do tourists find strange in Britain?

2.When
do you usually say "Thank you” if you have a meal at a friend’s house?

3.Do
you rich people have servants?

4.Do
wives do most of the housework?

5.Why
do people do their housework on Saturdays?

TASK №6 (U7-4)

Correct the mistakes in the following
sentences. There is only one mistake in each sentence. The mistakes can be in
grammar, spelling or vocabulary.

I like reading because is
interesting.

The house is very quite in the
evening

Her brother is two years
younger than she.

We are going in Italy
on holiday.

My grandma sent a postcard me.

Everyone was enjoing the
concert.

I don’t like girls with blonde
hairs

On Saturdays I’m usually play
football with my friends.

Would you like to visit a old
town?

They bought a ticket, than they
saw a film.

TASK №7 (T7-1)

Translate the sentences

Она
читала книгу, когда пришла сестра

Вы
часто играете в баскетбол?

Мы
побывали у моря

Где
был куплен этот журнал?

Я
все вам расскажу, если найду свои записи

Они
уже уехали, не так ли?

Она
заперлась в комнате и не хочет выходить

У
меня мало денег, я не могу это купить

Можно
мне задать вопрос?

Здесь
не так жарко, как в той комнате.

TASK №8 (u11-8)

Read the text and choose the answer (a, b, c or
d) that best fits each gap.

The Importance of Learning Languages

Once a little mouse, who was not on very good
term with cats (1)_____ all mice, decided to give herself a treat of cheese. To
do this she had to cross over to (2) ______ side of the kitchen where the table
was. She (3) ______ the cheese was there because she could feel its wonderful
smell. But there was a small problem. The mouse wasn’t sure if there were any
cats in the house. She certainly wouldn’t like to run the risk of (4) _______
so she sat inside the wall near the mouse hole and listened.

It must be (5) _______ that out mouse was not
an ordinary one. She was sort of gifted and she had some logic. She (6) ____ to
think twice before doing something to avoid unpleasant consequences. That was
(7) ______ she didn’t hurry.

At last she heard someone barking. The mouse
thought, " It must be a dog. Dogs don’t eat mice, end cats don’t (8) ___ live, where
dogs are. It means I can get to the cheese (9) ___ safely”. That was absolutely
logical.

But to the mouse’s greatest surprise as soon as
she got out of the mouse hole she was attacked by a big cat and eaten in (10)
_____ time. The (11) ___ is that it was cat who was barking. "Indeed, knowing
foreign languages can open new possibilities and give you a wider picture of
the world,” said the cat to himself and made off (12)________ a bird’s song.

1.a) asb)
withc) like

2.a) otherb) the
otherc) another

3.a) feltb) knewc)
smelt

4.a) being eatenb) be eatingc) be
eaten

5.a) notifiedb)
suggestedc)
mentioned

6.a) had been taughtb) was taughtc) had taught

7.a) becauseb) whyc) as

8.a) usuallyb) neverc) always

9.a) enoughb) quitec) so

10.a) anyb)
somec) no

11.a) thingb)
pointc) idea

12.a) murmuringb) murmuredc) murmur

TASK №9 (R8-4)

The parts of following
text are all mixed up. Put them in the right order.

(A) So captain threw a different cat into the
water. The sailors told him that a ghost cat would be following him all his
life because he had killed a black cat.

(B) Once he got into the captain’s cabin and
killed the captain’s favourite bird that in the cage. When the captain found it
out he was really angry.

(C) Satan was a friendly black cat who lived on
the ship. All the sailors loved him very much although he was very naughty and
lazy.

(D) He didn’t know it was Satan who had escaped
from the place where the sailors hid him. The captain was scared to death as he
saw that his sailors’ words were true.

(E) Of course he didn’t believe them because
captains rarely believe in ghosts. But one day when the captain was on desk he
heard a mewing of a cat.

(F)He
decided to throw the cat into the water. But when the sailors learned that,
they hid Satan and caught another black cat which looked exactly the same.